This is with respect to a checkpatch.pl CHECK: "Avoid crashing the kernel. Use WARN_ON instead of BUG_ON". But I maybe wrong here. Is a kernel crash desired if olpc_board_at_least(olpc_board(0xc2)) fails, will there be inconsistent results if execution continues? Signed-off-by: Bharath Vedartham <linux.bhar@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/olpc_dcon/olpc_dcon.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/olpc_dcon/olpc_dcon.c b/drivers/staging/olpc_dcon/olpc_dcon.c index 6b714f7..900baab7 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/olpc_dcon/olpc_dcon.c +++ b/drivers/staging/olpc_dcon/olpc_dcon.c @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ static int dcon_bus_stabilize(struct dcon_priv *dcon, int is_powered_down) } if (x < 0) { pr_err("unable to stabilize dcon's smbus, reasserting power and praying.\n"); - BUG_ON(olpc_board_at_least(olpc_board(0xc2))); + WARN_ON(olpc_board_at_least(olpc_board(0xc2))); pm = 0; olpc_ec_cmd(EC_DCON_POWER_MODE, &pm, 1, NULL, 0); msleep(100); -- 2.7.4 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel